A radio resource control (RRC) message is received by a radio resource control (RRC) device of a user equipment (UE). The RRC message notifies the FDD UE of a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) inter-Node B cell change. A reordering buffers of a medium access controller-high speed (MAC-hs) is flushed in response to the receiving the RRC message. A status report is generated for each acknowledge mode (AM) RLC instance mapped to the HS-DSCH by a radio link control (RLC) device after the MAC-hs flushes the reordering buffer. Each status report indicates missing AM RLC packet data units (PDUs). The RRC device sends a “TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE” message on a DCCH after the RLC device generates each status report.
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1. A user equipment (UE) comprising: a radio resource control (RRC) layer configured to: transmit a first message for a Remote Network Controller (RNC) of a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), the first message indicating characteristics of a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transport channel communicatively coupling the UE and a source Node-B cell, and receive a second message from the RNC, the second message comprising a RRC handover message indicating an inter-Node B HS-DSCH cell change from the source Node-B cell to a target Node-B cell; and a radio link control (RLC) layer comprising one or more RLC entities associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel, the RLC layer configured to generate an RLC status report for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel upon receipt of the second message from the RNC; wherein the RRC layer is to further transmit the generated RLC status reports for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel and a third message comprising a TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE message.
2. The UE of claim 1 , further comprising: a medium access control (MAC) layer including a medium access controller-high speed (MAC-hs) entity, wherein the MAC-hs entity is reset in response to the RRC layer receiving the RRC handover message.
3. The UE of claim 2 , wherein the RRC layer is further configured to: transmit a message comprising a PHYSICAL CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE message in response to receiving an RRC handover message indicating an intra-Node B HS-DSCH cell change.
4. The UE of claim 3 , wherein the MAC-hs entity of the UE is not reset in response to the RRC layer receiving the RRC handover message indicating the intra-Node B HS-DSCH cell change.
5. The UE of claim 2 , wherein the MAC-hs entity comprises a plurality of reordering buffers, and the MAC-hs entity is further configured to flush its reordering buffers in response to the RRC layer receiving the RRC handover message.
6. The UE of claim 2 , wherein the MAC-hs entity comprises a plurality of reordering buffers, and the MAC-hs entity is further configured to not flush its reordering buffers in response to the RRC layer receiving the RRC handover message.
7. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the status reports for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel indicate received RLC PDUs (Packet Data Units).
8. The UE of claim 7 , wherein the status reports for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel include transmission sequence numbers of the received RLC PDUs.
9. A Remote Network Controller (RNC) of a Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) comprising: a radio resource control (RRC) layer configured to: receive a first message from a user equipment (UE), the first message indicating characteristics of a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH) transport channel communicatively coupling the UE and a source Node-B cell, determine to initiate an inter-Node B HS-DSCH cell change for the UE from the source Node-B cell to a target Node-B cell, transmit a second message to the UE, the second message comprising a TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message indicating the inter-Node B HS-DSCH cell change, and receive, from the UE, a TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE message and a radio link control (RLC) status report for each RLC instance of the UE associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel, the RLC status report for each RLC instance being generated by the UE upon receipt of the second message; and an RLC layer to transmit data to the target Node-B cell in response to the RRC layer receiving the TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION COMPLETE message and the RLC status reports from the UE.
10. The RNC of claim 9 , wherein the TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message further includes a request for a medium access controller-high speed (MAC-hs) entity included in a medium access control (MAC) layer of the UE to be reset.
11. The RNC of claim 10 , wherein the RRC layer is further configured to: determine to initiate an intra-Node B HS-DSCH cell change for the UE, and transmit a message comprising a PHYSICAL CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message to the UE.
12. The RNC of claim 11 , wherein the PHYSICAL CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message does not include a request for the MAC-hs entity included in the MAC layer of the UE to be reset.
13. The RNC of claim 9 , wherein the TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message further includes a request for the MAC-hs entity of the MAC layer of the UE to flush its reordering buffers.
14. The RNC of claim 9 , wherein the TRANSPORT CHANNEL RECONFIGURATION message does not include a request for the MAC-hs entity of the MAC layer of the UE to flush its reordering buffers.
15. The RNC of claim 9 , wherein the status reports for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel indicate RLC PDUs (Packet Data Units) received by the UE.
16. The RNC of claim 15 , wherein the status reports for each RLC instance associated with the HS-DSCH transport channel include transmission sequence numbers of the RLC PDUs received by the UE.
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